An innovative clinic that is transforming the way patients receive care for fractured bones has proved a real success. The virtual fracture clinic enables patients to manage their own care from the comfort of home, delivering significant savings for the NHS.

At the age of 11, 3M senior research specialist Phil Jinks was fascinated by fireworks and started to create and test his own based on formulations and designs he found in the family’s 1920s Encyclopaedia Britannica.